Pt 23 – History or Myth: Kronos or As the Phoenicians Call Him Israel / Myth Based on Real People
Examples include Noah as Deucalion, Samson as Hercules, and parallels between biblical and mythological events.
Flood Stories from Around the World
Prometheus advised his son Deucalion to build a chest.
Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha (daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora), after floating in the chest for nine days and nights, landed on Parnassus.
Deucalion survived due to his prudence and piety and linked the first and second race of men.
An older version of the story told by Hellanicus has Deucalion's ark landing on Mount Othrys in Thessaly.
The Megarians told that Megarus, son of Zeus, escaped Deucalion's flood by swimming to the top of Mount Gerania, guided by the cries of cranes.
Nannacus, king of Phrygia, lived before the time of Deucalion and foresaw that he and all people would perish in a coming flood.
The floods, especially the third great flood before Deucalion, washed away most of Athens' fertile soil.
With Neptune's help, he caused storm and earthquake to flood everything but the summit of Parnassus, where Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha came by boat and found refuge.
Deucalion and Pyrrha, at the advice of an oracle, repopulated the world by throwing "your mother's bones" (stones) behind them; each stone became a person.
The Kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks
The whole of Greece lay under water, and none but Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha were saved." (Murray's "Mythology" p.
And here we find that the Flood that destroyed this land of the gods was the Flood of Deucalion, and the Flood of Deucalion was the Flood of the Bible, and this, as we have shown, was "the last great Deluge of all," according to the Egyptians, which destroyed Atlantis.
The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New
Deucalion repeopling the world is repeated in Xololt, who, after the destruction of the world, descended to Mictlan, the realm of the dead, and brought thence a bone of the perished race.
The Oneidas claimed descent from a stone, as the Greeks from the stones of Deucalion.
Some Consideration of the Deluge Legends
And the same succession of destructions is referred to in the Greek legends, where a deluge of Ogyges--"the most ancient of the kings of Bœotia or Attica, a quite mythical person, lost in the night of ages"--preceded that of Deucalion.
The Deluge Legends of America
This is a representation of the ark; the ancient Jews venerated a similar image, and some of the ancient Greek States followed in processions a model of the ark of Deucalion.
Szeu-kha killed the eagle, restored its victims to life, and repeopled the earth with them, as Deucalion repeopled the earth with the stones.
The Deluge Legends of Other Nations
"The generality of people," be says, "tells us that the founder of the temple was Deucalion Sisythes--that Deucalion in whose time the great inundation occurred.
I have also heard the account given by the Greeks themselves of Deucalion; the myth runs thus: The actual race of men is not the first, for there was a previous one, all the members of which perished.
We belong to a second race, descended from Deucalion, and multiplied in the course of time.
Deucalion alone, because of his virtue and piety, was preserved alive to give birth to a new race.
Such is the account given by the Greeks of Deucalion.
Then Deucalion raised an altar, and dedicated a temple to Hera (Atargatis) close to this very chasm.
This is said to be in virtue of a religious law instituted by Deucalion to preserve the memory of the catastrophe, and of the benefits that he received from the gods.
Here the Xisuthros of Berosus becomes Deucalion-Sisythes.
The animals are not collected together by Deucalion, as in the case of Noah and Khasisatra, but they crowded into the vessel of their own accord, driven by the terror with which the storm
"The second tradition is the Thessalian legend of Deucalion.
Zeus having worked to destroy the men of the age of bronze, with whose crimes be was wroth, Deucalion, by the advice of Prometheus, his father, constructed a coffer, in which he took refuge with his wife, Pyrrha.
Deucalion and Pyrrha leave it, offer sacrifice, and,
This Deluge of Deucalion is, in Grecian tradition, what most resembles a universal deluge.
At Athens, in memory of the event, and to appease the manes of its victims, a ceremony called Hydrophoria was observed, having so close a resemblance to that in use at Hierapolis, in Syria, that we can hardly fail to look upon it as a Syro-Phœnician importation, and the result of an assimilation established in remote antiquity between the Deluge of Deucalion and that of Khasisatra, as described by the author of the treatise 'On the Syrian Goddess.' Close to the temple of the Olympian Zeus a fissure in the soil was shown, in length but one cubit, through which it was said the waters of the Deluge had been swallowed tip.
Noah was one year and ten days in the ark, Khasisatra was not half that time, while Deucalion was afloat only nine days.
When the Greeks told the Egyptian priests of the Deluge of Deucalion, their reply was that they had been preserved from it as well as from the conflagration produced by Phaëthon; they even added that the Hellenes were childish in attaching so much importance to that event, as there had been several other local catastrophes resembling it.
The world before the Great Flood
The Greek gods, too, punished humanity for various transgressions, leading to disasters like the flood in the story of Deucalion.
Mount Parnassus
Another significant myth associated with Mount Parnassus is the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, who survived a great flood sent by Zeus to punish humanity.
According to the myth, after the floodwaters receded, Deucalion and Pyrrha landed on Mount Parnassus.
Unified Catastrophe Theory
Evidence: The Greek myth of Deucalion’s flood describes a cataclysmic flood sent by Zeus to punish humanity.
Estimates of human origins
The particular event here alluded to is the Oriental “Flood” of Noah, Deucalion, and others.
The kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks
Flood: The deluge that destroyed Atlantis is paralleled by the Greek story of Deucalion's flood.
The Deluge Legends (I)
Syrian Legend: Deucalion Sisythes builds a vessel and survives the flood with animals seeking refuge.
Ogyges and Deucalion: Ogyges escapes a flood that covers the earth.
Deucalion, advised by Prometheus, survives with his wife in a chest and repopulates the earth.